Previous talks between top ministers in both Parliaments have failed in their bid to break this political deadlock. May and Sturgeon’s relationship has been fraught at times. Nicola Sturgeon revealed in a New Statesman interview her personal view of May’s current government;

“When you’ve got an insight into how rough and tough and, at times, downright unpleasant the trade of politics can be, it’s hard not to feel some personal sympathy. Her position must be pretty intolerable. It’s tempered, though, by the fact that nobody made her call an election and she did it for purely party-political interest.”